If football is the new rock and roll, which it isn’t, then Luke Haines is Gareth Bale. Oh, you may scoff at the very notion that the former Auteurs man is in any way comparable to the Welsh winger – who last year became the most expensive footballer in history when he moved from Tottenham to Real Madrid – but you would be wrong. How so? Well, In 2013 Gareth Bale won both the Professional Footballer’s Association Player of the Year and the Young Player of the Year. Simultaneously. As impressive as that was, Haines was responsible for ELM’s favourite album of 2013 with the alluring/mental Rock and Roll Animals and our favourite re-issue with the sublime Off My Rocker at the Art School Bop. Kinda makes young Gareth’s feat seem less impressive, eh? In your face, Bale; in your face.

Today’s selection is from the latter. It is ‘Leeds United’ possibly the catchiest anti-nostalgia anthem to ever be written about Peter Sutcliffe. Haines plays the Elgar Room at the Royal Albert Hall on Feb 17. Only fools wouldn’t go.